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(No Model.)

R. J. KYLE.

BUTTON AND BUTTON TAs' BNER. No. 363,523. I Patented May 24, 1887.

I Fig. 4 is a top view of the first eyelet attached known machine for inserting eyelets.

"Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the follow UNMED Stains PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT J. KYlZE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON AND BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,523, dated May 24. 1357- Serial No, l97,l00. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, Bonner J. KYLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Buttons and Button ing to be a full, clear, and exaetdeseription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters and figures marked. thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I The object of my invention is to provide a button and fastener which can be attached to the cloth and fastened together without the use of a needle, and whieh,when so attached, will grip a considerable portion of cloth between two broad bases or flanges, one above and one below the fabric.

My nvention consists in the novel combination of three separate devices: first, an eyelet having the ordinary tubular-portion, and at the end of this a broad flange or base; see ondly, a button having an opening in its center, and, thirdly, a double-capped tubular rivet or any ordinary eyelet or rivet, these three devices being combined together and attached to the cloth in the manner hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the eyelet that is first attached to the cloth. Fig. 2 is a top view of the button. Fig. 3 shows the double-capped tubular rivet.

to the cloth. Fig. 5 is a view of the ,under side of the same. Fig. 6 is a vertical section showing the doubled-capped rivet applied to and passing through the simple eyelet attached to thecloth; and Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the complete button and fastening device, showing how they are combined with one another andattaehed to the cloth.

Similar letters indicate similar parts in the different figures.

The eyelet a, Fig. 1, is first attached to the cloth, so that its broad flange or head will rest on the surface or side of the cloth to which the button body is to be applied, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. lhis can be done by the well The double-capped rivet b is then passed through thehole in the eyelet a, so that the broad llange or base of the eyelet b is on the opposite side of the cloth from the head of the eyelet a, Fig. 6. The button is then slipped over the top of the double-capped rivet, and the rivet is then riveted to the button, as shown in Fig. 7, or in any usual manner.

The first advantage of my improved button is that by first attaching the eyelet ato the cloth the rivet l), which is to be riveted to the button, can be passed through the cloth without the aid of a guiding-needle. Agaimniy invention provides a broad metallic surface on each side of the cloth, between which corresponding surfaees a very large amount of cloth is gripped and held firmly. This feature adds great strength to the fastening, asthe pressure is distributed evenly over such a comparatively-largc surface of cloth that there is absolutely no danger of the rivet or eyelet being pulled through the cloth, and there is practically no possibility of the fibers of the fabric being weakened or severed.

\Vhen the rivet I) isv riveted to the button, the head of the rivet presses partly against the upset end of the eyelet a, and thus secures the eyelet a more firmly to the cloth. v

In place of the double-capped tubular rivet b a second simple eyelet-such as acan be used, or even a solid rivet with a broad base, provided only its upper end can be riveted to or turned down upon the face of the button; but I prefer the form shown.

I am aware that buttons have been made designed to be used with an eyelet which is first attached to the cloth, so I do not claim this feature, broadly.

The simple eyelet, the doublecapped rivet, and the button may be inadein any usual manner, except that the eyelets or rivets must he made with broad flanges or heads, as described.

The tubular part of the rivet b may he made tapering gradually from its base to its top, so i that when it is passed through the eyelet a. it

will operate as a wedge, and will thus be gripped and held firmly within the eyelet (t.

This will aid in making a firm fastening, and

will admit of the button. being so riveted .as to have a little looseness or play by making it unnecessary to press the button so tightly down on the flange of the eyelet a.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is lhe combined button and fastening conioo ,/ adapted to rest upon the surface of the fabsisting ofabntton having an open central hole around the same, the second rivet or eyelet;

and a broad-headed eyelet, the head being having its free end upset around the hole in [O the button, substantially as and for the purliO andits tubular shank passed therethi-ough poses set forth.

5 and upset, and a tubular rivet 0i eyelet in- ROBERT J. KYLE.

serted from the under side of the material, the XVibnesses: head of which bears against the upset end 011.1 ROBERT N. KENYON. the flanged eyelet and :1, portion of the fabric EDWIN SEGER, 

